June 22, 2007

I was up in Blanchisseuse for Labour Day weekend with the family. My sprained ankle slowed me a bit, but I still got out and did some exploring. I tried to find a trail from the Arima Blanchisseuse Road to Three Pools for mountain biking but the trail petered out and started to head back to Avocat, so I'll try another route.

The kids of course had a great time playing on the beach making sand castles and playing in the sea, as you can see. While on the beach this Wolf Spider (I think) ran up Gabby's towel, which of course led to frantic antics. I picked him up and put him on this branch.

We are now properly into the wet season, so hapily the forest fores are over.

June 01, 2007

In the past week we have welcomed our first rains of the rainy season, a very welcome event. The dry season was shaping up to be one of the worst in history, in fact areas of the Nariva Swamp that I have never s een dry were not just dry but very dry. The rains have been steady but not very heavy down pours.

About two weeks ago I visited Forest Point, which is just south of Galera Point; Trinidad's north eastern most point. Its very rugged, has a beautiful secluded beach and wonderful tide pools at low tide. I was there with my Go Mother, Aunt Ellie and my cousin Edward who was here from California leading a nature art tour. He took a couple days off to relax with his family and I took them up to Forest Point for a swim and explore. These are some photos I took, the first is of the point. The second is a Chiton, locally called Pacro, it is reputed to have aphrodesiac qualities and is of course highly sought after but of course it will not help even 17 year old. The other is a cool snail, can't remember what type.